Ohioans not told how license photos used

DeWine to address program in morning press conference

1:48 AM,
Aug. 27, 2013

Then-Sen. Mike DeWine looks into a TV camera before facing off against then-challenger U.S. Rep. Sherrod Brown before a televised debate Oct. 19, 2006, at the Stranahan Theater in Toledo. DeWine, Ohio's attorney general, was given no notification that law enforcement had begun using the facial recognition technology.

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Chrissie Thompson
The Cincinnati Enquirer

Without informing the public and without first reviewing security rules for the system, Ohio law enforcement officers started using facial recognition technology more than two months ago, scanning databases of driver's license photos and police mug shots to identify crime suspects, The Enquirer has learned.

After they launched the system, officials in Attorney General Mike DeWine's office weighed what new security protocols to establish for the state's law enforcement database and wondered when they'd be ready to tell the public about it. In hundreds of pages of e-mails and memos ...